Con­cept: Lands­ca­pe is the deep expres­si­on of the rela­ti­on betwe­en man, ter­ri­tory, its dyna­mics and time. This rela­ti­on, that can take dif­fe­rent forms, ran­ges from a con­ser­va­ti­ve appro­a­ch that tri­es to keep some pla­ces untou­cha­ble, to the one that goes far beyond eco­lo­gi­cal aspects and far from the ack­no­wledg­ment of a place’s cha­rac­ter.

The con­cept of this pro­ject lies in this sym­bo­lic con­nec­ti­on some­o­ne can esta­blish with a lands­ca­pe, but far from the two extre­mes. How man, repre­sen­ted by an arti­fi­ci­al woo­den struc­tu­re, can mer­ge him­self with a lands­ca­pe, it’s cha­rac­ter and biophy­si­cal dyna­mics, here illus­tra­ted by the sur­roun­ding gar­den.

For this plan the main idea was the cre­a­ti­on of an arti­fi­ci­al struc­tu­re that could mer­ge itself to the natu­ral landscape/​surrounding gar­den. This struc­tu­re, through its dif­fe­rent levels was thought to adapt to the exis­ting topo­graphy, let­ting the user con­nect and expe­ri­en­ce the sur­roun­ding gar­den in dif­fe­rent ways.

Loca­ti­on: Hubei — Chi­na

Cre­dits: All illus­tra­ti­ons by João Pom­bei­ro and Nádia Schil­ling with the excep­ti­on of the illus­tra­ti­ons 5 and 6, that are made by Cami­la Reis.